January 4, 2016
Roku Expands Its Smart TV Platform, Will Launch Its First 4K TV This Spring
If cord-cutting and streaming services are the future of TV watching, then it makes sense that one of the top makers of streaming media players, Roku, is expanding its television footprint.…
Remember Chromebooks? Acer does. The company has announced a $180 “rugged” Chromebook laptop and an iMac-like all-in-one – called a Chromebase – with optional touchscreen. The devices are low cost…
Life Sciences Marketplace Quartzy Raises $17 Million To Build Up The Supply Side
Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to…
Partnerships And Interoperability Matter Most In Cloud-Mobile World
Once upon a time, companies built huge proprietary systems to track their customer information, content, accounting, business intelligence and every other business function you can name. These were expensive, monolithic systems…
Lyft, Now Worth $5.5 Billion, Hops Into The Autonomous Car Race With General Motors
Lyft announced the close of its $1 billion Series F round today – half a billion of which came in from General Motors. The ridesharing service is now worth a…
Movinga, The European Online Removals Startup, Picks Up $25M Series B Round Led By Index
Movinga, the online removals startup that claims to be a leader in its native Germany but also operates in numerous other European countries, such as Austria, Switzerland, U.K., France and…
Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign…
Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar rents out is a silver Audi. Now…
BlackBerry Cancels Plan To Exit Pakistan After Government Drops Monitoring Request
Beleaguered phone maker BlackBerry has u-turned on its decision to exit Pakistan after it claimed it had struck an agreement with authorities over previous demands for access to user data.
Paytm Acquires Personal Assistant App Shifu To Improve Its Artificial Intelligence Tech
Paytm, the Indian mobile commerce company backed by Alibaba, announced today that it has acquired Shifu, a personal assistant app for smartphones. The value of the deal was not disclosed,…
If you believe the origin story depicted in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network, a young Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook in order to meet girls. Creative fiction or not, the real-life…
Golden Gate Ventures’ Vinnie Lauria On Being A Startup Investor In Southeast Asia
TechCrunch spoke to Vinnie Lauria, a prominent investor in Southeast Asia, about why the region is more exciting than India or China right now.
